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one of the upstairs apartments early this morning (530am) decided to beat each other up on the front balcony......my friendly landlady promptly had them removed and all went back to normal ah well...welcome to apartment life
She sounds like a real piece of work Sarah!
Our next door neighbor is not a dog person, and we have three dogs. We actually caught their yard guys poking sticks at our little dog. Our dogs love everyone else, but not them. Thankfully, they have a second home and spend most weekends there. The man also constantly berates his wife in his loud gravelly voice when they're out on the patio. I got that to slow down some when I mentioned that we can hear everything they say when their out on the patio.
On our other side is a backyard of a house on the street behind us. They're not too bad since they got a divorce. The teenagers have parties occasionally, but will turn the music down when DH goes out and yells at them over the fence. What's really amusing is the mom with her four foot bong on warm evenings. She's quiet now though, there used to be lots of fighting when the husband was there.
And don't get me started on Martha Stewart and family across the street.
Apparently, I have some pent-up neighbor issues myself.
But Sarah, how do you really feel about this lady? lol she sounds like a nut job. We don't have anyone like that.
I did get upset with my neighbors next door about a month ago. We had some landscapers out to mow and trip our lawn. As they were blowing the cuttings some pine needles from our lawn got blown onto her driveway. While they were still working she called to complain. Mom told her that they are still working, give them a chance, she is sure they will clean it up. Which they did.
This is the same neighbor who has someone come plow her house every winter. They have them plow all the snow so there is not one bit of snow in thier driveway or in front of thier house. So where does thier guy plow the snow too? On our sidewalk. When the mailman or anyone walking down our street gets to our section of sidewalk, they have to walk out into the street and then up our path to our stairs and the rest of our sidewalk. Believe me, I have tried to shovel the huge pile of snow that thier plow driver made, but it is way too packed.
I have never said anything, you know being the good neighbor and all. They lived there since my mom and dad moved in and we grew up calling them "uncle" and "aunt". But this coming up winter? If thier plow driver does it, you can bet I will be on that phone to them complaining lol.
I live in a twin. My neighbor in the house is fine. The house next door on my side is also a twin. We are convinced the house is cursed. Two good neighbors out of eight in the last 7 yrs. It was recently sold and I believe a new neighbor moved in this past weekend but I don't know who it is yet. The last neighbors were sisters who each rented a side of the house. The twins are 2 bedrooms each. One sister had 3 kids and the other sister had 9 kids. Yes 14 people living in two little twin houses. The noise and the cursing was unbelievable. It was very enjoyable to be flipped off constantly by the 4 yr old. The kids were always filthy and the moms got really ignorant when I wouldn't let their kids play in my yard. Luckily the house was sold so we are hopeful that the new landlord will be more on top of things.
Where we are now so far the neighbors are really nice. But our last house we had a neighbor that was horrible. They would never talk to us and leave us nasty notes about things but the worst was she told her daughter that she was allergic to my daughter and couldn't be around here . That went around the neighborhood and mine was and still is young enough to think it was actually true. I am so glad that we left them behind!
Wow Sarah, and I thought my neighbors were bad. You've got me beat by a long shot.
I have 2 neighbors (in 2 separate houses) across the street who feel they "own" the neighborhood. I never had trouble with them (there were always more important fish to fry) until this past winter. Apparently, it's our turn to be on the list and my DH and I are the targets. Every time we do anything, they call whoever governs that particular activity. Right now we're building a new deck, so I know they'll be calling the building inspector to make sure everything is in order.
Bless your heart what a horrible neighbor she actually sounds like a womane who used to live in our development a few years ago, but I think they moved to FL (they were also military) who knows it might be her
I love the fact that she got a ticket... what goes around........
Sign me up for the Passporter Party, all your Passporter Peeps will giver her a run for money and her precious pond.......... OH the Evil Queen is coming out
Wow, Sarah. Our upstairs neighbors STOMP on the floor so hard that our dining room light fixture rattles ... but I'll take that over your neighbor any day!! Yikes.
Sarah, have you considered getting revenge on her?? Like pick a day when she is gone and get a ton of manure dumped on her front lawn!!! Or make a pledge to the local PBS station for her!!! (She'll never miss that thousand dollars). Maybe if you find a dead animal throw it in her yard and call the cops!!! I do not believe in taking anything from anybody unless I like em. scott
PS: Make sure that lawn delivery comes COD to her!!
How controlling!
I've never had neighbors like that. Mine used to be of the common "kid's a dope fiend, other kid's knocked up/knocked someone up, dad's gone or is here, but he's really no-one's daddy, I don't know who the daddy is, What - having mice and roaches is bad? Smoking isn't good for 10 yr. olds? Why do you make your kids go to school every day if they don't want to? Can I bum a dollar" variety.
Then we moved.
We did have neighbors there that were much classier. They didn't stand on the front porch and curse out their kids, but they also didn't like the fact that my kids were allowed to play with the Muslim children in the neighborhood. They also liked to tell me if the grass was too long (once while DH was away on buisness, I had a toddler and a colicky new-born, and a teen in the hospital on life support - told her she could either help out or shut up)
Well, I guess all I can say is "at least the evil you know is better (maybe) than the evil you don't know"
Wow, Sarah, talk about a bad neighbor! for dealing with, or preferably being able to avoid her!
The only annoying neighbors we have are the people across the street from us. They like to park directly across the street from our driveway, which makes it really difficult to back out as the streets in our subdivision are kind of narrow. Our HOA covenants say that you aren't supposed to park on the street, but that doesn't keep them from parking at least three of their cars on the street most of the afternoon and evening. We're moving in a couple of months, so I'm not going to complain about it, it's not worth it at this point and I don't want to have any trouble.
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Wow, Sarah, I really feel for you. Being a recent former college student, and having a DBF who's in medical school, we've definitely had our share of bad neighbors in regards to student-centered apartment complexes. In fact, we recently moved out of the place we lived in for 4 years because it just got to the point where I was literally saying to myself, "I'm too old for this nonsense." And then I felt really bad about myself.
We've run the gamut of weird neighbors. We've had the domestic disturbance kind (and let me tell you, in my personal experience, the women always seemed to be initiating these fights); the drunken loudies who come home at 3 am and need to either honk their car horns or have arguments in the parking lot, or just generally make lots of noise/vomit in the landscaping; or, my personal favorite - the "Bass-Masters," as we called them, who liked to knock our paintings off the walls because their subwoofers were directly adjacent to our apartment, and apparently the size of small cars.
We now live in a townhouse development that consists of young couples and small families. We're the neighbors who'll offer a wave, but other than that, please don't bother us. We've also determined that a lot of our neighbors are more than a little strange...and by strange, we've got one neighbor who likes to chainsaw the brush in our backyards (we have a creek that runs behind the houses)...we call him Creepy Carl.
We've also got a neighbor who likes to take her dog for car rides, but the dog refuses to get in the car. So she'll literally spend 15 minutes trying to get the dog into the car...never mind that the dog probably weighs 20 lbs and she could just pick it up and put it in the car. It's literally hypnotizing to watch her try to "run" the dog into the car, or stand there and put its paws on the seat, then push the dog's rump, all to no avail.
I will say I agree with other posters - pot smokers/pot dealers seem to be the best neighbors in that they're super mellow and, as Donna and Chrissi said, don't want to attract attention, so they mainly stick to themselves.
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she actually sounds like a womane who used to live in our development a few years ago, but I think they moved to FL (they were also military) who knows it might be her 
what goes around........
for dealing with, or preferably being able to avoid her!
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